Reinarz said the increase in minority applications and admissions shows the strategy is ``on the right track.''
To advance the drive for minority students, A&M plans a $125 million fundraising campaign to finance scholarships. The school also plans to increase the size of awards and to make financial-aid offers to prospective students earlier in the year, school officials said.
Andrew Garza, a senior studying biomedical science, said the university needs to do more to make itself known to Hispanics.
``A lot of them are choosing to stay home, but we're getting some,'' said Garza, executive director of the school's Hispanic Presidents Council. ``It's going to take time.''
State Rep. Garnet Coleman, a Houston Democrat and member of the Legislative Black Caucus, said Texas A&M's increases in minority enrollment were easy because so few attended the campus to begin with. He said the school sends a mixed message by not considering race in admissions.
— Associated Press
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